imbibition

Example Sentences

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If, now, we presuppose absorption or even imbibition on the part of the skin, a swelling of the nerve-ends is comprehensible, as the imbibed fluid reaches them.

From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.

Delayed by the mirror to the extent of having consumed but half of his refreshing draft, yet purposing further imbibition, Judge Henderson paused at the sound of some person ascending the outer stair.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson

On this depends the capacity for the absorption or imbibition in the plasm, and the mobility of its molecules, which is very important for the performance of the vital actions.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)

A division is sometimes made into Mandibulate and Haustellate groups, the oral apparatus of the former being adapted for mastication, the latter for imbibition of liquid food.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The formation of the elementary shapes of an organism is but a crystallization of substances capable of imbibition.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane